as I was driving to work on I-95. There is this young guy on a very nice Yamaha sport bike who passes me like he's in a REAL hurry every morning. If you know what I mean.
My heart jumps out of my chest from the not knowing he's coming and the noise.
Well today I called work because traffic was backed up for miles and I was going to be late.
I get up to what is the cause. I see a yellow blanket.
I see the motorcycle and as I go past, I see his helmet on top of the blanket.
It is on the news as I type tonight. 23 years old.
I remember cursing at him one morning and I wish I cold take that back. I remember seeing him all the time and he would be going so fast he would soon be out of site. I would get to my exit and after a few lights, there he'd be. The last time I saw him I thought to myself "you dumb ***, all that and now I am passing you. All that risk for nothing."
Well he is never going home again. and he will never blow by me again and it makes me sad. If he had just rode sensibly and not like a jerk. I don't know exactly what happened and the police don't either. A witness thought the car that he was trying to go around made an agressive move towards him and he over reacted right into the guard rail. And I saw it it wqas bent all to heck and agghhh. I feel really bad. There was a lady there crying and she probably saw him first.
Sorry for the drag

 

Awwww, I feel so sorry for this guy. I know he was acting like a jerk, but this is very tragic.

 

it is sad to hear, if he obeyed the law maybe this wouldn't have happened. This is also why I don't have a sport bike, I would be going fast also. I have had WAY to many close calls on motorcycles over the past 30 years, so I keep the speed down, well at least try to.

 

I know what youn mean when they pass you at like 120mph. Then you catch up to them at the lights. I'm sorry to say that some people just don't learn intil it's to late. I think we all went throw that stage of speed in our lives. Now were older and wiser. Just ride safe Poeple..........

 

I don't mean to sound cruel, but people who ride or drive like that are asking for it. I mean he is taking his life and other people on the roads lives and putting them in danger. I saw an accident about a year ago where a guy was driving about 80 down a 3 lane street in the rain. He hit a oncoming jeep with 2 teenage girls in it. He clipped the front bumper and it sent him into the back of a house where he died instantly. I ran up to the jeep to find the girls shaken but not hurt. All I could think being a father myself is that that guy got what he deserved for driving like a F#*CKING IDIOT. I'm sorry for the family and their loss, but as far as the guy OH WELL. If he used his brain it wouldn't be splattered on the road.

 

A bunch of my employees ride street bikes. I have been to one of their funerals' and it was painful. Yes he did ride crazy, and yes it was dangerous to him and others. But we all know how its feels to get that power under your ***, and when your on a 1000cc street bike you almost feel invincable. Thats obviously not the case. He was a great guy... quiet and reserved in his normal life and a daredevel on his bike. The most amazing and emotional thing I have ever seen was the funeral procession from the chappel to the burriel site where all of his riding crew (like 200 sport bikes) followed the hearse banging their bikes off the rev limiters. The bikes sounded like they were crying. Tragic really.